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<\/a><\/div>\nYesterday I provided a one to one training session and the portraits here are what I created to show how you can light, style and pose to create a beautiful, timeless portrait of a child.<\/p>\n
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The image above, although I took the photo, I cannot take all the credit. Ian Stacey, my attendee, brought in his stool and he had choosen to have our lovely model Chloe lean on the stool. I liked the idea so much I chose to take a few for myself to see what I could produce. This is another great example how shooting with others is a great opportunity to start to see things in a different way. Sometimes we can get in the habit of shooting a certain way and its good to change things up. For example, I often stick to shooting at F8 and take more full body shots, partly because that was what I was doing for my Fellowship panel and have since had requests for similar portraits. But here I wanted to demonstrate changing the look by switching to F2.8 which meant using the 70-200mm lense which is better suited to close ups. So this is what we created. Ian produced a fantastic image himself. I love the shallow depth of field here and the connection we have with those eyes staring so intently into the camera. <\/div>\n
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